Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

Evidence of human life in the Gobi Desert 8,000 years ago has been found, thanks to the analysis of an ancient dry lake in ...

Any advocate of desert ecosystems will happily tell you that the desert is not a wasteland, despite what it might look like. And while most desert regions boast vast communities of mammals, insects, ...

The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According to the ...

Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes The Atacama Desert—an arid, ...

Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of ...

Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered fresh geological evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface of Mars, suggesting the Red Planet may have stayed habitable ...

Map showing (in red) the areas where heavy erosion was detected by satellite radar images following Storm Daniel in the watersheds of Eastern Libya and how the the streams loaded with high amounts of ...

In the vast and whispering sands of AlUla, an ancient landscape where history breathes from the very earth, Desert X AlUla 2024 unfurls as a breathtaking canvas for contemporary art. From February 9th ...